TOPIC: Business plan/design for newbies

Hi all those interested in getting started. I went through the whole process: getting a preliminary design, quotes from builders, equipment quotes, and developing a business plan. Unfortunately, a theater started soon after, leaving my plan a bust. For those getting started, I'll sale a copy of everything I have:
-The preliminary design of the theater (10 screen, stadium seating), done by theater architects
-Full Business plan: which includes all numbers, and equipment, etc.
-Spreadsheets I used in determining business plans, which you can manipulate to fit your demographics
This would be everything you would need to take for funding, you would just have to manipulate the data based on your own demographics and funding abilities. I am just trying to recoup the large amount I had to put up for the design and time. Please email
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for more info. Thanks.

That's one of the major risks in this business. No one is safe from a competion build. The costs of entry are not high enough (c/f opening a car dealership)that anyone can build in your market at any time.

Yeah, it was disappointing, however, by the time I was through, I was finding it hard to really make the theater worth it. Had I the chance to obtain funding, I would have gone through with it, but it was close, which makes me wonder what kind of arrangement the people that came in are going to have. The ones coming in are independent as well. You definitely have to be somewhat quick, because during the project I made sure noone else had plans for construction, but you know how easily that changes.